Le mème numérique : étude sémiotique des réseaux à partir des concepts de trace et d’indice

• Main Author: Maude Bonenfant
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2014-12-01
• Series: Communiquer
• Subjects: digital meme; track; index; semiotics; network
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/1295

This article formulates a reflection on networks that produce senses and on human networks through the paradigm of the track and the “detective” technique as a heuristic method for studying online worlds. More precisely, based on the notions of track and index discussed by several authors, a methodological proposition will be suggested to examine digital memes, as well as sense and human networks that constitute them. In this context, meme is understood in its double sense : as a track of cultural production and as a particular Web phenomenon specific to some online communities, that means as well as a “sign” from a culture and as a cultural production recognized through its own characteristics peculiar to the online worlds.